Greenpeace say that the three companies are unaware as to whether the palm oil they buy from Indonesia is linked to rainforest destruction and they placed them in the lowest “failed promises” category.

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According to the report, titled 'Cutting deforestation out of the palm oil supply chain', most of the companies surveyed could not say how much palm oil came from suppliers that comply with their own environmental standards.

Greenpeace surveyed 14 global consumer goods manufacturers with ‘No Deforestation’ policies in place, including snack food, confectionery and personal care companies, in order to understand the practical actions that these companies are taking and the impact those actions are having on the ground in Indonesia.

The focus of the report is Indonesia, as the country has lost 31 million hectares of forest, an area almost the size of Germany, since 1990. Indonesia’s plantation sectors – pulp, palm oil and timber – are driving this forest destruction.

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